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WO2003092825A2
WO2003092825A2 PCT/GB2003/001844 GB0301844W WO03092825A2 WO 2003092825 A2 WO2003092825 A2 WO 2003092825A2 GB 0301844 W GB0301844 W GB 0301844W WO 03092825 A2 WO03092825 A2 WO 03092825A2
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strip
tee
frustoconical
pile
hooks
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Lawrence Stuart Toms
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Montour Limited
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B57/00—Golfing accessories
    • A63B57/10—Golf tees
    • A63B57/13—Golf tees foldable or separable
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B71/00—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
    • A63B71/06—Indicating or scoring devices for games or players, or for other sports activities
    • A63B2071/0694—Visual indication, e.g. Indicia
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B57/00—Golfing accessories
    • A63B57/10—Golf tees
    • A63B57/15—Golf tees height-adjustable

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  • the present invention relates to a tee and more particularly to a tee whose configuration may be readily adjusted to support a ball at different heights.
  • a known tee comprises an annular strip whose opposed ends are formed with respective interengaging slots, which extend radially from the inner and outer edges of the strip.
  • a frustoconical tee formed from an annular strip of flexible sheet material, the two ends of the strip being superimposed and releasably secured to one another by a coating of contact adhesive applied to one side of the strip or by complementary, cohesive regions of hooks and pile provided on the opposite sides of the strip.
  • the height of the tee may thus be readily adjusted by varying the extent to which the two ends of the strip are overlapped.
  • the strip may comprise a plurality of arcuate segments whose adjacent ends are overlapped and releasably secured to one another by a coating of contact adhesive applied to one side of each segment or by complementary, cohesive regions of hooks and pile provided on the opposite sides of each segment.
  • the strip may comprise a pair of substantially semi-circular, arcuate segments.
  • At least one side of the annular strip is formed with at least one marking for aligning the overlapped ends of the strip.
  • a plurality of markings are preferably formed on said one side of the strip for aligning the ends of strip at different respective degrees of overlap, to vary the height of the tee.
  • the or each marking is preferably located on the strip so as to be obscured from the view of a person addressing a ball supported on the tee.
  • the or each marking comprises a line along which the edge of one end of the strip may be positioned.
  • the or each marking may, for example, be printed onto the surface of the strip or comprise a surface impression formed, for example, by an embossing process and/or by heating selected areas of the strip.
  • the hook bearing side of the strip or the side opposite to that on which the or each marking is formed is preferably formed with indicia, such as an advertising logo, which may, for example be printed onto the surface of the strip or comprise a surface impression formed, for example, by an embossing process and/or by heating selected areas of the strip .
  • the or each marking is preferably formed on the adhesive coated side of the strip.
  • the adhesive coating may extend over a portion or over substantially the whole of one side of the strip. Where the adhesive coating extends over only a portion of one side of the strip, the coating preferably extend to at least one end of the strip, which end is preferably formed with said at least one marking for aligning the overlapped ends of the strip.
  • the or each marking may be formed on either side of the strip. However, most preferably, the or each marking is formed on the pile bearing side of the strip.
  • the regions of hooks and pile preferably extend over substantially the whole of their respective sides of the strip. It is therefore convenient to form the strip either by superimposing and bonding together a first strip of material formed on one side with hooks and a second strip of material formed on one side with pile, or from a single-layer sheet material formed on its opposites side with hooks and with pile, such a material having been recently developed and used to form cable ties.
  • the radially inner and/or outer edges of the annular strip may be profiled, for example serrated, to respectively increase or decrease the amount of contact between the tee and a ball supported on the tee and/or between the tee and ground.
  • the annular strip may be perforated, i.e. formed with a plurality of holes or slits, to reduce the degree resistance presented by the tee to side winds and/or to lateral impacts.
  • a blank from which a frustoconical tee may be formed comprising an annular strip of flexible sheet material coated on one side with a contact adhesive or provided on its opposite sides with complementary, cohesive regions of hooks and pile.
  • a method for forming a frustoconical tee comprising providing an annular strip of flexible sheet material coated on one side with a contact adhesive or provided on its opposite sides with complementary, cohesive regions of hooks and pile and superimposing the two ends of the strip to secure them together.
  • a method for manufacturing a blank from which a frustoconical tee may be formed comprising the steps of providing a sheet of flexible material coated on one side with a contact adhesive or provided on its opposite sides with complementary, cohesive regions of hooks and pile and dividing an annular strip from said sheet.
  • a pad of superimposed annular paper or plastics strips one side of each strip being coated with a contact adhesive to releasably secure the strip to the pad and, when the sheet is released from the pad, to releasably secure the opposite ends of the strip to one another to form a frustoconical tee.
  • an apparatus comprising: a frustoconical tee formed from an annular strip of flexible sheet material, the two ends of the strip being superimposed and releasably secured to one another by complementary, cohesive regions of hooks and pile provided on the opposite sides of the strip; and a patch provided on one side with a region of hooks or pile and on the opposite side with means, e.g. an adhesive, for fastening the patch to a support surface.
  • the patch may thus, for example, be fastened to a golf bag, for releasably securing the tee to the bag when not in use, or fastened to the head or handle of a golf club, for retrieving the tee from the ground after use.
  • Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank from which a prior art tee may be formed
  • Figure 2 is a side elevation of a tee formed from the blank of Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 is a plan view of a first embodiment of blank from which a tee may be formed in accordance with the present invention
  • Figure 4 is a transverse cross-section through the blank of Figure 3;
  • Figures 5 to 7 are respective side elevations of various configurations of tee formed from the blank of Figures 3 and 4.
  • Figure 8 is a perspective view showing a preferred manual process by which a tee may be formed in accordance with the present invention.
  • Figure 9 is a plan view of a second embodiment of blank from which a tee may be formed in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 a prior art blank comprising an annular strip 2 of flexible sheet material is shown, from which a frustoconical tee may be formed by overlapping the two ends 4,6 of the strip and interengaging the radial slots 8,10 formed in each of those ends, as shown in Figure 2.
  • a first drawback of the prior art arrangement is that the height of the tee formed from the strip 2 is of fixed height or, if one end of the strip were to be formed with a plurality of radial slots, would be adjustable only by discrete amounts.
  • a second drawback of the prior art arrangement is that, in order to ensure that the upper and lower rims of the tee will have a substantially uniform circular profile when the tee is formed, the slots 8,10 formed in the ends 4,6 of the strip 2 must be interengaged such the both ends of the strip extend along the inner surface of the tee, a formation which, in practice, requires complicated manipulation of the strip.
  • Figures 3 and 4 show a blank in accordance with the present invention, comprising an annular strip 12 of flexible sheet material, formed on one side with hooks 14 and on the opposite side with pile 16, such that the two ends 18,20 of the strip may be releasably secured to one another, at any chosen degree of overlap over a continuous range, to form a frustoconical tee of a required height, the series of side elevations shown in Figures 5, 6 and 7 showing how the degree of overlap of the ends 18,20 of the strip may be progressively increased to correspondingly increase the height of the tee.
  • one end 18 of the strip 12 is printed with a series of radial lines 22, along a selected one of which the leading edge of the opposite end 20 of the strip may be aligned.
  • a user will preferably be encouraged, either by instruction or by further features of the strip, to form the strip into a tee, as shown in Figure 8, with the alignment markings 22 directed inwardly of the tee.
  • the alternative embodiment of blank shown in Figure 9 comprises a discontinuous annular strip 24, the arcuate 26 gap between the two ends 28,30 of the strip determining the minimum height of tee that may be formed from the strip, for example to ensure that, in use, the tee or at least a marked portion of the tee is not visible to a player addressing a ball supported on the tee.
  • the strip 24 shown in Figure 9 is further serrated along its radially inner and outer edges 32,34, the serrations on the radially inner edge of the strip serving, in use, to reduce the degree of contact between with a ball and the serrations on the radially outer edge of the strip serving, in use to stabilise the tee on rough grass.
  • the blanks shown in Figures 3 and 9 may optionally be perforated, i.e. formed with a plurality of holes or slits, to reduce the degree of resistance presented by the tees formed therefrom to side winds and/or to lateral impacts.
  • either type of blank may be secured to a golf bag via a patch, e.g. a circular patch having substantially the same diameter as the blank, which is fastened to the bag and has an exposed region of hook or loop material.
  • a blank may be supplied fastened to such a patch, which is preferably coated on its reverse side with a layer of contact adhesive for fastening the patch to a support surface, the adhesive layer being covered by a removable backing sheet.
  • a patch having an exposed region of hook or loop material may also or otherwise be fastened to the head or to the handle of a golf club, for retrieving a tee formed from either blank from the ground after use.
  • the retrieval patch may conveniently be formed from the portion of material cut from the centre of a blank.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un té tronconique formé à partir d'une bande annulaire (12) constituée d'un matériau feuille flexible. Les deux extrémités (18, 20) de la bande sont superposées et fixées libérables l'une à l'autre par un revêtement adhésif de contact appliqué sur un côté de la bande ou par des zones complémentaires cohésives de crochets (14) et de tissu (16) placées sur les côtés opposés de la bande. La hauteur du té peut facilement être ajustée par variation de la longueur sur laquelle les deux extrémités (18, 20) de la bande (12) se chevauchent.
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US570821A (en) * 1896-11-03 Combined golf-tee and score-card
US1103091A (en) * 1913-08-30 1914-07-14 Ernest C Smith Golf-tee.
US1611332A (en) * 1926-04-13 1926-12-21 Earl C Bunnell Golf-tee packet and golf tee
US1644804A (en) * 1926-01-02 1927-10-11 Elwood S Whitcomb Combined golf tee and score card
US1675335A (en) * 1926-04-28 1928-07-03 Carl B Drevitson Golf tee
US3697082A (en) * 1969-08-29 1972-10-10 Arnold E Di Laura Golf tee

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US1535181A (en) * 1924-09-08 1925-04-28 Sawyer Burnside Ellsworth Golf-ball tee or support
US1661513A (en) * 1927-09-30 1928-03-06 Erman N Swett Tee-forming blank
US1674814A (en) * 1928-04-18 1928-06-26 Fred O Anderson Golf tee
GB9418108D0 (en) * 1994-09-08 1994-10-26 Cunningham Douglas Ball supports

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US570821A (en) * 1896-11-03 Combined golf-tee and score-card
US1103091A (en) * 1913-08-30 1914-07-14 Ernest C Smith Golf-tee.
US1644804A (en) * 1926-01-02 1927-10-11 Elwood S Whitcomb Combined golf tee and score card
US1611332A (en) * 1926-04-13 1926-12-21 Earl C Bunnell Golf-tee packet and golf tee
US1675335A (en) * 1926-04-28 1928-07-03 Carl B Drevitson Golf tee
US3697082A (en) * 1969-08-29 1972-10-10 Arnold E Di Laura Golf tee

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